Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-31
Decoration Day.
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the hearts of q freed race, dear to every
patriot heart, and whose great heart
and God.like charity turned hate to
love. and still another sturdy, taciturn
with that unreliable countenance
which, unmoved. has so often with
unquailing eve, met the storm Of bat.
tie and without fear met at last the
one unconquerable foe. Washington
Lincoln Grant! And amid the
shadowy throng appears one who but
a few months ago passed over to the
great majority; one who while with US
lived well the patriots life; true In
his patriotism as the magnet to the
pole; who had served well his country
In two wars. honoring alike by his pos
session Of the musket OF the private
soldier and the stars of the general
officer, whose presen"e on the field Of
battle was worth ten thousand men,
Who could rally a broken line and
snatch victory from defeat; who could,
in his magnanimity, delay to obey an
order issued under a Misrepresentation
by his superior, when prompt obedi-
ence would work g~rievous wrong to a
brother soldier, though by so doing he
lost an opportunity to add to his own
fame; who, when whiterobed Peace
resumed her sway and he had been
chosen by comrades for positions of
honor and trust, always had the cour-
age to stand by his convictions Of
right and to raise his voice In behalf
Of the men whose valor had saved the
nation; who had oeen once chosen
commander-in-chief of that organiza-
ton which has for its main object the
maintenance of principles OF loyalty to
the old flag; to whom more than to
any other we owe the conception of
the services which make this a sacred
day. and these sacred duties to the
veteran; whose journeys through the
land resembled a triumpbal progress;
one who never failed to a friend or
feared a foe-Comrade Logan.
The illusory pageant has vanished.
On fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with silent round,
The bivouac Of the dead.
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They sleep their last sleep.
They have fought their last battle;
No sound shall awake them
Toglory again.
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Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave,
No impious footstep e'er shall tread
The heritage from thy grave.
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fam her record keeps.
Or Honor paints the hallowed spot
Where yalOr proudly sleeps.
Aud, comrades, ia later days when
you and /, our duties ended. shall have
been laid to rest. Ia await the sounding
OF the great r~eville. ct Ter generations,
whose hands have never drawn the
the sw ord, and whose eyes have never
looked through the smoke OF battle
fires. but whose love of country and of
liberty aud OF right, learned from fam
lily legend aud historic page, shall be
strong and pure, shall gather to assist
at /. is ceremony. and with reverent
care, shall place on tablet aud monu.
ment offerings such rs comrades place
there to-day, and those eloquent In
speech or gifted in song shall rebearse
the story Of how n nations life was
saved by the valor of It's sons. And
with them shall come one with silver
ed head, lettering steps and age-dim-
med eyes, bearing upon his breast the
badge which only those tried in the
hour of a country's danger can wear,
and with shrunKen arm and shaking
hand, which in boyhood's days had
sounded the drum-beat that had rous.
ed his comrades for the fray; he shall
for the last time place upon the graves
OF his comrades loves garland and the
%victor's wreath. And after that shall
come a day when he, too, shall join
the Great Encampment, and with
those gone before. shall await the sum.
mons of the Great Commander, and
then the world will have lost the las,
Of an army. the equal of which It had
never before seen. "Tbe next time
we shall see them will be in the day
when the Reveille of the Resurrection
morn shalt sound, and the Lord OF
Hosts shall marshal all the armies OF
the living and the dead, and they shall
come up from Egyptian and Grecian
aud Roman and Crimean and Indian
and American battlefields, ana the
grand commander shall be rs the pri.
vate soldier and the king as his sub.
ject. and 1t shall be found out how
each one has done his,duty. Unit
then. farewell, We gentle and brave
ones Of these ob.equies. The grave
has claimed your bodies as God has
taken your spirits, but your work shall
live forever more" But, comrades o.
the Grand Army, let us cherish in oul
hearts their memories; keeping then
ever fresh and green, and as each re-